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I believe the term ‘serial killer’ is highly misleading, in that it implicitly suggests to the general public that murder is the paramount object or motivating urge in the mind of the killer ... They naturally attribute this motivation partly because they value human life above all else, and partly because, as their endless fascination with the subject suggests, they have a vague conception of murder as being somehow mystical, highly dramatic, or even a nebulously romantic experience, replete with unimaginable connotations of eroticism. And guilt for it must be paid for in full.
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The relation between the white and colored people of this country is the great, paramount, imperative, and all-commanding question for this age and nation to solve.

frederick douglass

— Speech at the Church of the Puritans, New York City (May 1863)

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Science is paramount, but presents no challenge to a creed that rests on faith-based belief.

joseph silk

— Page 2.30 (The Dark Side of the Universe, 2007)

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America must always be the world's paramount military power, but we can magnify our power through alliances.

john kerry

— May 27, 2004 [6]

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Pride is an established conviction of one’s own paramount worth in some particular respect, while vanity is the desire of rousing such a conviction in others, and it is generally accompanied by the secret hope of ultimately coming to the same conviction oneself. Pride works from within ; it is the direct appreciation of oneself. Vanity is the desire to arrive at this appreciation indirectly, from without .

Arthur Schopenhauer

— Vol. 1, Ch. 4, § 2

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With the growth of the world population, the global climate change and the need for a greater healthy environment, access to water resources has become a crucial condition for the realization of an equitable international order, where the needs of the peoples are effectively addressed. In this regard, the need for international cooperation, including in joint effort with relevant non-state actors, is paramount to ensure water is made available to all without discrimination. Water is a human right, an enabling right, not a mere commodity.

alfred de zayas

— Statement by Alfred de Zayas on World Water Day 22 March 2013 [54]

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With the growth of the world population, the global climate change and the need for a greater healthy environment, access to water resources has become a crucial condition for the realization of an equitable international order, where the needs of the peoples are effectively addressed. In this regard, the need for international cooperation, including in joint effort with relevant non-state actors, is paramount to ensure water is made available to all without discrimination. Water is a human right, an enabling right, not a mere commodity.


— Statement by Alfred de Zayas on World Water Day 22 March 2013 [54]

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Enterprise engineering is rooted in both the organizational sciences and the information system sciences. In our current understanding, three concepts are paramount to the theoretical and practical pursuit of enterprise engineering: enterprise ontology, enterprise architecture, and enterprise governance.


— Erik Proper, Frank Harmsen, Jan Dietz (2009, preface)

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We need leadership that can elevate religion and morality to their position of paramount importance and thus eliminate growing selfishness, immorality and materialism.


— George W. Romney, in Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report, Volume 25, Part 3, p.2388

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The paramount question of the day is not political , is not religious , but is economic . The crying-out demand of today is for a circle of principles that shall forever make it impossible for one man to control another by controlling the means of his existence.


— Voltairine de Cleyre, in "The Economic Tendency of Freethought" in Liberty Vol. XI, #25 (15 February 1890)

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There was a time, not so long ago, when the might of our alliances was a driving force in the survival and the success of freedom... America must always be the world's paramount military power, but we can magnify our power through alliances... let there be no doubt, this country is united in its determination to defeat terrorism...


— John Kerry, May 27, 2004 [16]

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Surprise was paramount because we believed that the Japanese did not know of the presence of our carriers.


— Commander Joseph Worthington, Commanding Officer of the destroyer USS Benham, on the US Navy’s planning for the Battle of Midway, which relied on the breaking of the Japanese code.[ ]

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Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen will make a ton of money, Michael Bay will be lauded as the greatest director of our generation, and the accountants at paramount will have their second collective orgasm in as many months. As for me, I will try desperately not to weep not so much for what the success of a movie like this means to motion pictures, but for the simple fact that I'm going to have to do this all over again in two or three years for Transformers 3 .

james berardinelli

— Review of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)

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Certainly all those who have framed written constitutions contemplate them as forming the fundamental and paramount law of the nation, and consequently the theory of every such government must be, that an act of the legislature, repugnant to the constitution, is void.

john marshall

— Marbury v. Madison (1803); 5. U.S. (1 Cranch) 137, 177

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Finally, it should be the earnest wish and paramount aim of the military administration to win the confidence, respect, and affection of the inhabitants of the Philippines by assuring them in every possible way that full measure of individual rights and liberties which is the heritage of free peoples, and by proving to them that the mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation substituting the mild sway of justice and right for arbitrary rule.

william mckinley

— December 21, 1898

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I'm the kinda girl who works for paramount by day, and Fox all night

Mae West

— Sextette

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